Bible Question:
Interested in seeing what sort of responses I get to this one. Please support any answers with Scripture references. Can "anything" good come from evil? WOS |
Bible Answer: Hi WOS, A little more... In the beginning, God. Col 1:16 For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: Col 1:17 And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. God created ALL things, even the angels. Jud 1:6 "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation..." And God saw every thing that He had made, and behold, it was very good. Gen 1. Gen 3:22 "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil..." To have the knowledge of good and evil may not be the same as being good or being evil. Or is it? Jesus says we are evil, Mat 7:11 "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" Then can we say that evil came from God? God forbid! It is the creature that left their first estate. Gen 3:10 "...I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." Good by definition: GOOD, a. 1. Valid; legally firm; not weak or defective; having strength adequate to its support; as a good title; a good deed; a good claim. 2. Valid; sound; not weak, false or fallacious; as a good argument. 3. Complete or sufficiently perfect in its kind; having the physical qualities best adapted to its design and use; opposed to bad, imperfect, corrupted, impaired. We say, good timber, good cloth, a good soil, a good color. Evil by definition: E'VIL, a. e'vl. [Heb. to be unjust or injurious, to defraud.] 1. Having bad qualities of a natural kind; mischievous; having qualities which tend to injury, or to produce mischief. - Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen 37. 2. Having bad qualities of a moral kind; wicked; corrupt; perverse; wrong; as evil thoughts; evil deeds; evil speaking; an evil generation. 3. Unfortunate; unhappy; producing sorrow, distress, injury or calamity; as evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days. If the salt has lost its flavor; it cannot be converted back again. Unless by Divine intervention. Absolutes: Positive - Negative White - Black Full - Empty Light - Dark Good - Evil Righteousness - Sin Forgiven - Unforgiven Therefore: Divine intervention - Jesus, death, blood, burial, resurrection - salvation! The salt has been converted. The good has come from evil. In thy (sinful man) seed, I will bless the nations (with a sinless man). Gen 22:18 Gal 3:16 "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." But under its own power, a negative absolute cannot become a positive absolute. Not by works, lest we boast. terrib |
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